Brighton seafront road worst in the country for speed fines

If you're a driver prone to speeding, the Brighton and Hove coast road could be a very expensive route.

Government figures compiled by The Sun found that the route where drivers were most likely to get fined was on a 12-mile stretch of seafront in Brighton, East Sussex.

The busy road which has 11 cameras caught 18,045 drivers in three years.

A spokesman for Drivers' Alliance told the Sun: 'Cameras don't improve safety. They're often placed to generate maximum revenue'.

However a spokesman for road safety charity Brake disagreed, saying: 'They are an extremely effective way of enforcing the law, reducing speeds and preventing tragedies'.

Britain has around 6,000 speed cameras, which generate £100m a year in tickets. More on the story here

By the way....One of the inventors of speed cameras was Maurice Gatsonides, a Dutch rally driver who developed the most common 'Gatso' camera as a training tool to improve his cornering speed.